Xabi Alonso and Julian Nagelsmann had to be removed from the coaching list. Now Ralf Rangnick could get the job as FC Bayern coach. A decision should be made “promptly”.
Now things can move quickly with Ralf Rangnick and FC Bayern. According to the sports director of the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB), Peter Schöttel, the Austrian national coach has received an offer from Munich.
Rangnick is said to have informed ÖFB President Klaus Mitterdorfer and Schöttel himself about an offer from the German record champions at a meeting today, Schöttel told ORF in an interview. “When a club like Bayern Munich comes knocking, it’s understandable that you think about the interest of this club.”
Rangnick should therefore be in pole position to succeed Thomas Tuchel, who is leaving Munich this summer a year before the actual end of his contract. Xabi Alonso from Bayer Leverkusen and national coach Julian Nagelmann also ensured the 65-year-old’s current status at FC Bayern. After the championship with Bayer, Alonso wants to train in Leverkusen for at least the next season, and Nagelsmann even wants to tackle the 2026 World Cup with the DFB.
Rangnick’s question: “Do I even want that?”
Rangnick himself initially confirmed that the Munich team had contacted him before Schöttel went further. “At the moment there is no reason to deal with it intensively and specifically,” he told the portal 90minuten.at in an interview published on Wednesday afternoon.
When asked when that would be the case, the Swabian replied: “The moment Bayern would say: We want you. And then I have to ask myself: Do I even want that?” And apparently FC Bayern actually wants him, but there were initially no official statements from the Munich team regarding the personnel.
Will the personnel details be sorted out in “a week or two”?
Everyone involved should want “a decision soon,” as the ÖFB sports director put it. “We are shortly before the European Championships with big goals. Of course, Bayern Munich will also have a deadline because they also want to know,” said Schöttel. The matter will have to be settled in “a week or two”.
The ÖFB firmly believes that Rangnick, who has a contract until 2026, will definitely go through with the European Championships. “We have maintained a very trusting relationship over the last two years. We will continue to do so. Depending on the direction in which his decision goes, we will discuss together what happens next,” said Schöttel, who has Rangnick’s skills and a functioning one environment has to offer.
The new Bayern coach should work “longer term”.
But is that enough for Rangnick? FC Bayern has its own charm. Hannover 96 TSG Hoffenheim, RB Leipzig and Schalke 04 were among the analyst’s Bundesliga stations. An opportunity like the one in Munich at the end of your career will probably never come up again.
“We want to have a coach who will accompany Bayern Munich in the long term,” said sports director Max Eberl, who is exploring the coaching market together with sports director Christoph Freund, Rangnick’s former assistant at Red Bull Salzburg. “We want to build continuity. That is a crucial fact in order to be successful.”
Rangnick, obsessed with detail and always demanding extensive skills, could be the right man for this. Then the “white smoke” that Eberl likes to talk about will perhaps still rise in the desired month of April.
Source: Stern
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